He was the host at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel during an improbable resurgence of cabaret from the 1980s to the early 2000s. He died of complications of Covid-19.
Source: New York Times
Arthur Pomposello, Impresario for a Cabaret Swan Song, Dies at 85
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